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Originally Posted by Tarana
My bookclub will be doing Jim Butcher's Aeronaut's Windlass next month. I have resisted this book because I really don't like steampunk, but willing to give it a shot. Has anybody listened to the audiobook version of this? Does the reader work well for you with this story?
Haven't listened to Codex Alera although I have the first 3 audiobooks (yeah, what's up with that? I am SO behind!).
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All the Butcher I've "read," which is most of what he's written, has been audio, or switching off audio and text. Two or three months later, I hardly recall the experience of listening to
Aeronaut's Windlass, which pretty much says it all. Here's what I wrote about the narration at the time:
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The narrator, Euan Morton, does Butcher's prose no favors, either. He's good at distinguishing character voices, but his overall delivery is rather flat and disinterested.
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Codex Alera I really liked. I guess I'm still a sucker for the whole "Small town boy saves fantasy land" shtick, and it didn't hurt that the bad guys were basically the Zerg from Starcraft
